Bill Joe Rodman

The city of New Orleans' recent decision to partner with private plaintiffs' lawyers to file suit against the oil and gas industry continues an unnecessary trend of ineffective legal action against one of the state's largest employers and economic supporters.

We write in response to Dan Fagan's recent column, "Oil companies not the real culprits in Louisiana’s wetland Loss: It may be Mother Nature." Is Mother Nature to blame for Louisiana’s Wetland Loss Crisis? River deltas naturally deposit sediment and build land in the form of delta lobes comprised mostly of wetlands. Rivers erode their channels and eventually abandon their course for a shorter route to the sea.

He was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He was a veteran of the US Army, and also worked as a plant manager for Great Lakes Cheese. He married Wilma Laurette Bell in the Salt Lake Temple, Salt Lake City on March 11, 1980, and they were together for 35 years. Rodman was preceeded in death by his parents.